get the name of a thingoid

[Rick]

I thought I did this before, but I can seem to recall how to get the name of a thingoid. So if I was looking through the objecttable how could I get the name of each thingoid in it? I tried GetKey("name") or just the name property but that didn't seem to work.

[Canardia]

Why not just set the name key in the thingoid's script (or .ini file (have people forgotten about those?)? I made also the name key editable for my models, since I want to be able to have more meaningful names than light_point_1.

[Rick]

I'm trying to get the name of other thingoids in a different thingoid. I want to allow to set the name of a thingoid in the settings of another thingoid instead of using a target.

 

Also, is it me or in the class.lua file does it look like there is a Name property but the get and set key methods aren't doing anything with it.

[Josh]

If the name property is not handled in any special way in the script, then it is simply added to the entity keys.

[Rick]

From what I'm understanding of what you are saying it would mean I could use GetKey("name") (because that's the entities keys), but that doesn't seem to work.

 

for k,v in pairs(objecttable) do
    Notify(v:GetKey("name"))
end

[Rick]

Oh, nevermind. I see

 

for k,v in pairs(objecttable) do
   Notify(GetEntityKey(v.model, "name"))
end

 

Just kind of strange how some things work the lua way GetKey(), and some need to use the LE function way.